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= Dr. Lee Humphreys = Lee Humphreys is a woman of many talents. She is a Communications professor, researcher, and widely published author. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Communication from Cornell University and her Masters and Doctorate degrees from The University of Pennsylvania. She currently works as an Associate Professor at Cornell University's Department of Communication. She is the co-author of Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication. along with the second edition, which is published by MIT Press. She is married to Professor Jeff Niederdeppe, has two children, Ruth (7) and Charlie (4), and enjoys exercising.

Education
She is an outstandingly smart person. She graduated from Cornell University in 1999 with her Bachelor of Science in Communication, then proceeding to get her Master of Science in 2003, and finally her Doctorate in 2007, both from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her areas of expertise include: mobile technology, new media, qualitative methodology, social interaction, social media, and social network sites.

Dr. Humphreys studies the social uses and effects of communication technology, such as mobile phones and devices. All of her hard work and research has led her to further explore mobile phone usage in public, finding out the new norms on social media, and the privacy and surveillance in's and out's of location-based services, such as apps. She mainly focuses on how people use technology in their everyday lives in order to maintain social interaction. She has found so many similarities between the ways people use social media currently and how people back in the 19th and 20th centuries used diaries and scrapbooks. She has also concluded that people are not as self-obsessed as people claim that social media users are because it dates all the way back to the 19th century.

Career
Dr. Humphreys has most recently in her successes become a fellow at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research and is currently working as an Associate Professor at Cornell University's Department of Communication teaching undergraduate and graduate students. In June of 2016, Dr. Humphreys planned to continue to impact the community of global communications by becoming the Vice Chair for the International Communication Association's Communication and Technology Division, which is located in Fukoka, Japan.

Along with being a professor, she is also an amazing author. She is the co-author of Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication. The second book to this is called Digital Media 2: Transformations in Human Communication. This is simply an update to the first book with essays, including top scholar's opinions on sexuality, politics, globalization, communication, and privacy. There are so many facts included in this book. Since 2005, she has co-authored and authored over twenty pieces. She has been featured in New Media & Society, Communication & Society, Information, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Journal of Communication. She also wrote The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life, which was published by MIT Press back in 2018. This book shares everyday life activities through her point of view and recognizing the world all around us. She calls these activities "media accounting." She raises questions of self-representation, everyday activities, and her favorite, mobile technology.

She is currently also working on a project with AT&T involving the evolving nature of telecommunication, media, and information involving networks.

While writing her book, she found time to co-edit an issue for the journal Mobile Media and Communication. This consists of many articles informing readers about research and moving into how people can collect data via new social tools.

Another accomplishment of Professor Humphreys is that she also found time to co-chair the International Communication Association (ICA) Ethics Task Force. She worked extremely hard for three years for the ICA to finally accept the Code of Ethics in 2019. She wrote this strict code along with seven other authors. Members of this association are expected to uphold the highest standard in all of their work.

While co-writing the book, Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts, she was granted a three-year grant to explore privacy practices on Twitter. She conducted interviews with Twitter users and analyzed public tweets, which were later published in her own book.

She currently serves as a member of the Department of Communication's Outreach Committee, which includes working closely with the Alumni Advisory Board to seek feedback in order to improve. She also presents the role of social media in outreach efforts at various Cornell Cooperative Extension events and programs.

As well as working on boards, conducting research studies, writing, editing and much more, Dr. Humphreys also leads the New Media & Society Working Group. This is led by Dr. Lee Humphreys, Brooke Duffy, and Katherine Sender, who are all in the Department of Communication, as well as doctoral students comparing and exploring research together. This group has been published in over 15 different academic journals.

In fall of 2020, she taught COM 2200 - Media Communication. This course provides the understanding of media content, industries, policies, and research. Another course she has previously taught is COM 3200- New Media & Society. This course challenges students to analyze how the overall landscape has shifted in relation to the introduction of digital media. Her favorite course to teach was COM 4650- Mobile Communication & Public Life. This course involves all of her previous research compiled to help students understand mobile communication and the important effects much further.

She is now serving as the Director of Cornell's new Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute. The QuIRI works to bring researchers from Cornell who are teaching and developing qualitative research methods. It was established to enhance research method training, increase awareness of qualitative method opportunities among social sciences at Cornell, enhance the overall support, and increase collaboration. Scholars are not only limited to Communication experts, but Anthropology, Sociology, City & Regional Planning, and Policy Analysis & Management as well.

A few of her current projects include her replication study of her previous study "Mobile Phones in Public," back in 2005.